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In this video I take you behind the scenes on a portrait photography shoot and show you how I created a number of ‘Brenizer Method’ panorama portraits of my friend Darcie.
The Brenizer Method, also know as a bokeh panorama, is a technique which allows you to create images which appear as though they were taken on a very wide aperture lens, but they actually were not. The technique involves stitching together lots of different images in specialist software such as Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop.
As well as showing you how I took these photographs with my camera, I also show you how I edit Brenizer Method images in Adobe Lightroom.
All the photographs in this video were taken on my Sony A9 camera with my Sirui Aurora 85mm f1.4 full frame lens.
A huge thank you to Darcie for modelling and my partner Helen Williams for filming and lighting:
Darcie:
Helen Williams:
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37 responses to “HOW I SHOT THIS | How to create Brenizer Method portraits”
I have received a lot of comments asking about how I removed Helen and the light source in these photographs. I did put a note on the screen at 17:17 but just to explain better: although the first frame often did include Helen, once I had taken that first frame, I asked Helen to leave the scene and I then shot the area again where Helen was stood so I had a 'clean' version of that area. When I then merged all the images in Lightroom, Lightroom chose to use the 'clean' area, so it didn't include Helen automatically. I was as surprised as many of you may be that it did this, I was very impressed! I hope this helps.
very nice
Finally saw one I liked then he said it was "boring, flat"
Wauw! 😍
Wonderful image and such a great area! Thanks for explaining how to take a Brenizer photo 😀👍🙏
Lovely final image – you don't need a 4,000 quid camera body either. Works just as well on low megapixel sensor cameras. I'll be trying this for landscapes.
awesome "how too" – its always great when you bump into these sort of videos
This is a quite old technik. But only with tripod. Otherwise the pics will not fit exact together due to the changing parallax. Beautiful location!
The lighting on the subject does not match the scene's lighting, making them appear like cardboard cutouts.
👍👍👍👍
Absolutely stunning results and superb explanation. Subscribed.
(I'm lucky enough to own a small woodland here in France. You've given me some ideas!!) What I love about this technique is that it gives you such a detailed shot of the subject, basically a full-frame portrait's worth of detail, meaning you can crop into the merged images as much as you like.
Love the technique! Do you have any tips for motivating the light source so that the light on the subject doesn't look out of place in the result?
Great final photo and interesting video of how it was made. Also those quick bits of Darcy's wedding, what great photos, very creative compared to standard wedding photos.
Every time I have tried to merge photos into a panorama, my computer crashed 😂
Beautiful photos, brilliant technique.
Wow. What an interesting video. I love it
This technique is how i've been replicating medium/large format DoF for years. It's super effective and software now makes it waaaay easier. It's wonderful
Amazing <3
I'm going to give this a try soon. Thanks!
Absolute magic! Stunningly beautiful photography! Litterally jawdropping mastery! 👏👏👏
Absolutely incredible ❤
It’s fantasy scape
So it's like shooting with an ultra-wide but nothing is distorted? Very interesting idea, I'll have it in the back of my mind for a future project.
Loved your video! As far as exporting goes, do you stick to 300 dpi for print and 240 ish for web for these?
I thought the place was some photoshop stuff, was surprised to see that it is an actual place, wow.
Softbox? Did Lightroom mask it?
thank you for your technique
Love the darkness in that 1/800ss shot! The flash over Darci is what really makes this whole thing possible with how she just pops
I'm surprised these shots are stitching properly without a nodal panoramic tripod setup for the camera.
this seems like a medium format emulation
Thanks for the wonderful tutorial. but how does lightroom know to delete/mask the assistant and softbox while keeping the model in Panorama merge step?
দারুন কাজ! খুব ভাল লাগলো। (Google Translate may help you to understand my comment 🙂)
amazing work.
Question: Lightroom automatically removed your assistant and the light when merging??
Wow😮
Hi Neil, does the light holder just disappear when you merge all of the photos together or did you have to do some extra editing to remove her? Thanks man and awesome video!
Hi, could you tell me the name of the support the girl has mounted on the flash, and the brand of that monopod?
Forgive my ignorance, but did you just mask out the lady holding the light?